Robert Moog, Cornell Ph.D. '64, whose name became synonymous with many forms of the music synthesizer he originally invented and manufactured in a Trumansburg, N.Y., storefront from 1964 to 1971, died Aug. 21. He was 71.
Robert I. Toll '63, chairman and chief executive officer of Toll Brothers Inc., has been named Cornell's 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year and will be honored on campus Wednesday, Nov. 2.
Steve Squyres, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has written a book about the Mars Exploration Rover mission that takes an inside look at how the mission came together.
Friday, Aug. 19, was move-in day for many of the almost 6,400 incoming undergraduates newly landed at Cornell. Many were freshmen, their parents in tow and loaded down with boxes, clothes baskets and all kinds of touches from home.
On Aug. 21, students and faculty members gathered in Barton Hall on campus to discuss Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart,' the subject of Cornell's New Student Reading Project.
Nimat Hafez Barazangi, a research fellow in Cornell's Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been providing commentary on the draft Iraqi constitution, including a scriptural rationale for changes to improve the status of women under the new government.
Cornell's Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings III has accepted the resignation of Vanda B. McMurtry as vice president for government and community relations.
A new switch designed by Cornell engineers uses water droplets to create very strong adhesive bonds that can flicked on and off in an instant. The switch was inspired by a mechanism found in palm beetles.
Cornell has licensed operation of its hydroponics greenhouse - which produces herbs and 6,000 heads of lettuce weekly - to Challenge Industries, providing steady jobs to more than a dozen people who otherwise face barriers to employment.
A study by a finance expert at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and three colleagues shows that mutual funds do better when the fund manager has "skin in the game" -- and gains financially when the fund prospers.
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer.
Young adult women whose mothers cohabit are 57 percent more likely than other women to report cohabitation themselves, according to a study by Cornell's Dan Lichter and Ohio State University colleagues.
